SOME SUICIDE.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7752, 22 July 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

SOME SUICIDE.

T*.© suicide over East of a miner, aged 82, who was fo-und shot dead, with a sharp carving-knife and poison hy his side, recalls another case. Arizona Bill Adams, than whom there was no better known identity on the early Coolgardie fields, was one© telling a. smoke-night crowd of a case in California. “Jake Kelly,” related Arizona Bill, “had determined on suicide, and to make sure got to the edge of a cliff overhanging the sea. “There was a tree overhanging tho water,” continued Bill, “and Jake fastened one end of a rope to the tree and the other around his neck. “T?he.n after ho (had floated his clothes in kerosene lie ignited himself, took a dose of strychnine, and just lie•ore ho jumped off to hang himself he fired a pistol bullet at himself. He n’so had a hundred pounds of iron on hie legs to help him to drown. Everyone at the soak smooial was listening with suspended breath. “He came through all right,” said Bill after a pause in which you could have heard tho beads on the whisky winking. The bullet he fired cut the rope, and Jake fell into the sen, which put tho fire out. Ho swallowed a lot of sea water, which made him sick, and up came the poison.” “Yes!” gasped a score of listeners. as k°d chairman of the And how about tlie weights around slnvoo. “M’m coming to that,” said Bill, •.lust ns bo was going down for the tenth and last time the hotel waiter coffw’” nnd WOk ° ~im ~p to drink his They never forgave Bill.—“ The Amtrabisinn.”